NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built to question the origins of life, but its results may reshape that ...

Weighing only 700 grams, the Martian Aerogel Jacket’s outer shell is crafted from the exact fabric used in NASA’s hypersonic parachutes, designed to withstand the fiery plunge through Mars’s ...

The aerogel matrix and high magnetic field (B>20T ... The ultimate potential is there but the NASA NIAC study is lets make something much smaller and simpler. Brian Wang Brian Wang is a Futurist ...

The Martian Aerogel Jacket has been built to withstand both the harshest conditions on Earth and extraterrestrial extremes, and is made with materials that NASA has used on active service spacecraft.

The other 99.8% is the air you are breathing traveling through trillions of channels made by a nano-material that NASA calls Aerogel. Back in the 1990s, when Aerogel broke the world record for the ...

Coperni said the cloud-like handbag is the biggest ever object made from the space technology nanomaterial silica aerogel, which is the lightest solid on planet Earth and often used by NASA to ...

Researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center use a flat aerogel array antenna to beam signals to a satellite in geostationary Earth orbit. [Courtesy: NASA/Jordan Cochran] Engineers at NASA are ...

The Martian Aerogel Jacket incorporates materials originally crafted for one of NASA’s most celebrated missions. The parachute used by the Mars Rover mission, which landed on February 18 ...

NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg works on an experiment from Stanford University that aims to synthesize graphene aerogel in space. Image credit: NASA. A new experiment on board the International Space ...

Though this looks like a hologram, this is a photograph of a lump of aerogel, which to the touch feels like Styrofoam. Image Credits: NASA ‘Aerogel’ is not a specific mineral or material with a set ...